“Coming Together To Make Aging A Little Easier”: TTN Caring Collaborative in
The New York Times
In “How We Love Now” I talk about the difference between care-giving and care-getting, by which I mean the necessity of watching out for one’s own needs even if it means asking for help (and we all know how hard that is!).
As a model for one kind of care-getting I describe the Caring Collaborative created by The Transition Network (TTN).
“Exclusive”: Enough Mystiques to Go
Around — And This One Is Masculine
By Suzanne Braun Levine, Women’s Media Center In 1963 Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique identified The Problem That Has No Name—a soul-destroying malaise and sense of uselessness that beset the woman who had bought into the “mystique” of perfect wife, homemaker, and mother. Because she wasn’t happy, she thought something was wrong with her. The second […]
Finding Work After 55! It’s
Easier Than You May Think
Mary Eileen Williams, author
“Land the Job You Love!”
One third of job seekers are now over 55!
How are we doing?
“The New Male Mystique” and the
Ongoing Work-Family Conflict
By Suzanne Braun Levine
Back in 2000 my first book Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First came out. In it I talked about men who desperately wanted to be more involved with their families and do more of their share at home but were constrained by the workplace culture and the prevailing image of how a Real Man prioritized his work and family. One told me that he was so afraid of getting caught leaving his office at 6:00 p.m. and being thought not committed to his work that he parked in a distant corner of the parking lot. Another told me that when he went to the playground with his baby daughter on a weekday, people assumed one of two things – that he was unemployed (a failure) or a sexual predator.
“EXCLUSIVE: MISSING BETTY FORD”
By Mary Thom
July 14, 2011
The author, editor of the WMC Exclusives, recalls a moment decades ago that encapsulates the power and purpose of the former First Lady, who died last week at the age of 93.
NY Public Library Hosts Encore
Careers Panel June 29 with
Purpose Prize Winners &
Suzanne Braun Levine
By Stefanie Weiss,
VP Communications at
Civic Ventures
Some of the most inspiring Encore stories come from Civic Ventures Purpose Prize winners and fellows, people in their 60s who are tackling society’s toughest problems.
GETTING FIRED TURNED OUT TO BE THE BEST THING!
Change, Fear and Taking the Plunge
By Suzanne Braun Levine
I’m not big on change. Most of us aren’t. That becomes a bigger problem the more choices we have and the more restless we feel. Second Adulthood is about choices and restlessness and trying something new, but that means change, and many of us get stuck at the edge of the diving board.
“PIECING” by Robin Morgan –
A Gift for Mother’s Day
By Robin Morgan, “Upstairs in the
Garden: Poems Selected and New,”
1990.
“Sometimes you don’t have no control over the way things are. Hail ruins the crops, or fire burns you out. And then you’re just given so much to work with in a life and you have to do the best you can with what you got. That’s what piecing is. The materials is passed on to you, or is all you can afford. But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them in any order you like. Piecing is orderly.”
— An anonymous woman quoted in The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art
“TELL YOUR DEMONS TO SHUT UP.”
We All Have Personal Demons…
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY
10 Life Lessons for Women
In Second Adulthood
FEAR!!!!
We each have our personal demons that show up in the middle of the night shrieking a litany of worst-case scenarios: What if I don’t have enough money to support myself? What if that nagging ache is something really serious? What if I can’t figure out what to do next? What’s wrong with meeeeeee?
“SHIFT HAPPENS” – It’s My New Motto.
Maybe it’s Your Motto, Too?
By Ruth A. Wooden,
Chair, Civic Ventures
Shift Happens. It’s probably happening to you right now
My big shift started when I retired last year, and it’s still going. I’m not sure where I’m headed, but it’s been a pleasure to hit the pause button while I ponder. Lately, certain life moments have hooked my attention, turning points that mark shifts not only in the world around me but in the way I view it.